Aging Skin: Current and Future Therapeutic Strategies

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548 Pages

Published 2010

ISBN-10: 1932633596

ISBN-13: 9781932633597

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Aging Skin presents leading-edge strategies to treat problems of aging skin. Current concepts are presented, along with fundamental research detailing the biochemical mechanisms underlying photodamage–the hallmark of aging skin. Based on the premise that aging and senescence occur due to a deterioration of cutaneous repair systems, topics covered include:

Linda D. Rhein, PhD, has more than 25 years experience in dermatology research with 55 publications and 25 invited lectures. She has taught biochemistry in the graduate program at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, and is past president of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.

Joachim W. Fluhr, MD, is a dermatologist and medical director of Bioskin Research. He has authored more than 100 publications. He is currently the president of the International Society of Skin Pharmacology and Physiology.

"Everyone searches for the Fountain of Youth. As more and more research is done, the answer gets clearer: you must protect your skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays. Aging Skin delves deeply into this research, and provides an explanation as to why UV rays cause so much damage as well as current methods for treating this damage. Additional insight is given as to the direction in which sun care products need to move, in order for photodamage—and thus, aging—to be prevented."

—Tracy Wray, L.E.B&R Products Inc.

"For dermatologists, pharmacologists, and chemists in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, this reference covers leading-edge concepts in skin aging, current treatment and prevention strategies, discussion of aged and dry skin, and future trends. Editors Rhein (biochemistry, Farleigh Dickinson U., NJ) and Joachim W. Fluhr (a dermatologist in private practice, and president of the International Society of Skin Pharmacology and Physiology) have brought together 18 contributed chapters. A sampling of specific topics: mechanisms and pathophysiology of photoaging and chronological skin aging, epithelial skin cancer, estrogen deficiency, sunscreens, retinoids and retinoic acid treatment, biophysical instruments for testing, nutrition, glycation and oxidative stress, and hormones and metabolism."

"One of the inevitable questions you get when you tell your friends that you are working in the efficacy assessment of cosmetics is, 'Do they really work, these antiaging products?' You then find yourself defending the cosmetic industry, knowing that there are indeed products that come up short on their promises. But for that, there is no longer an excuse since the publication of Aging Skin: Current and Future Therapeutic Strategies. Aging skin is not an issue that cosmetic formulators can tackle on their own, as skin aging is a physiological process with many different components (e.g., hormonal and otherwise biochemical). That is why our industry also needs dermatologists to explain the underlying physiological changes, which is exactly what Aging Skin does.

"The editors of this new publication are Linda Rhein, PhD, a renowned cosmetic scientist with more than 25 years of experience in dermatological research, and Joachim Fluhr, MD, a well-known dermatologist and medical director of Bioskin Research, who has worked with almost every famous dermatologist with an interest in the basic sciences that form the basis for cosmetic science, including Peter Elias, Peter Elsner and Enzo Berardesca. Both have extensively published in peer-reviewed cosmetic and dermatological journals. This combination of dermatological and cosmetic science experience is obvious from the table of contents, in that it combines the latest dermatological insights with the latest cosmetic insights. The book discusses all antiaging strategies from photoprotection to using active ingredients, such as retinoic acid, antioxidants, estrogens and growth factors/cytokines, to (semi-) surgical/physiological intervention (i.e. chemical peels, microdermabrasion/microcoblation, laser, Botox injections and soft tissue augmentation). On top of that, future trends in skin aging research are also discussed. Not only are all these different approaches thoroughly described and up-to-date, there is also a very good introduction to the underpinning physiological process of aging skin. The book is ... the most thorough discussion of aging skin research that I have seen for a long time. It is bound to become a classic of our cosmetic dermatological literature. The book is equally suitable for dermatologists and cosmetic formulators alike who want to understand how their antiaging products work. With the availability of this new book, our industry no longer has the excuse to creating antiaging products that do not work, but it is up to you, the reader, to decide whether you take this knowledge and apply it."

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